*Please note our July meeting will be held at a different location. We will meet at Active Health Chiropractic, 201 Centre Dr., Suite 102, Stephens City from 6:30 - 8pm .

Birth Matters Virginia will hold its Annual Awards Gathering in Richmond on Sunday, August 10.  Our guest speaker will be Cara Muhlhan, the midwife from The Business of Being Born.  See our main home page for more information and to purchase tickets.  Call 540-327-2012 if you are interested in joining a carpool for this event.  

Birth Matters Winchester holds meetings on the second Tuesday of each month. The meetings are held at Grace Evangelical Lutheral Church, 26 W Boscawen St in Old Town Winchester from 6:30 - 8pm. Our meetings are open to the public and children are welcome.

We hold that pregnancy is a normal, healthy life process that should be honored and respected. We dialogue about informed choices for birthing women and their families and seek to support each other in our childbearing years. We share our experiences, our resources, our birth stories, our hopes, our fears, our questions, our concerns, and our joys.

We have a library of books and videos that may be used by Birth Matters members. You may join on-line from our home page or at any of our meetings.

Please call Julie at 540-327-2012 for more information.

Winchester Medical Center (WMC) had a C-section rate of 38% in 2006 according to Virginia Health Information (www.VHI.org). Only 62% of women who gave birth at WMC in 2006 had a vaginal delivery. Ask your maternity care provider what his or her statistics are.